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What’s Behind Pope Francis’ Changes To The CDF?

February 22, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on What’s Behind Pope Francis’ Changes To The CDF?

By ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI VATICAN CITY (CNA) — Pope Francis issued a document on Monday, February 13 restructuring the powerful Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). He announced the changes ahead of the publication of his long-awaited blueprint for the reform of the entire Roman Curia.The Pope unveiled the CDF’s new structure in a text issued motu proprio, or “on his own impulse.” This was the forty-eighth motu proprio since his election in 2013, confirming that this is Pope Francis’ preferred mode of instituting change.Shortly after his election, he established a Council of Cardinals to assist him in governing the Church and help him draft a new apostolic constitution redefining the tasks and functions of curial offices.The Curia…Continue Reading

A Travesty… Catholic Groups Fund Illegals Hopping The Border

February 21, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on A Travesty… Catholic Groups Fund Illegals Hopping The Border

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This essay first appeared February 11 at WND.com and it is reprinted here with permission.) + + Pity the poor Roman Catholic who tries to make sense of what is going on in their Church on the issue of illegal aliens. Essentially, I’m talking about the mass movement of illegals into this country across our southern border.For anyone not paying attention, just the mention of this issue brings a blank look. They have no idea what I’m talking about, but anyone with a modicum of interest in current news knows just what is happening.There is a terrible problem with illegal immigration into the U.S. — and there is a connection between that and the Catholic…Continue Reading

A 40 Percent Fatherless Nation?

February 20, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on A 40 Percent Fatherless Nation?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY In 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II, there were 2,515,427 babies born in this country. Of those babies, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 95,700 — or 3.8 percent — were born to unmarried mothers.The traditional family led by a mother and father was a foundational fact of American culture.In 1945, the percentage of babies born to unmarried mothers rose to 4.3 percent. But, by 1946, the first full year after the war, it dropped back down to 3.8 percent.The traditional family survived.Then in the 1950s, the percentage of American babies born to unmarried mothers began to slowly tick upward, hitting 5.2 percent by…Continue Reading

The Richard Nixon His Loyalists Knew

February 19, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The Richard Nixon His Loyalists Knew

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Whenever America is polarized, as it is today, people go back in memory and history to recall other times their nation was so divided.The Civil War of the 1860s and the social revolution that tore us apart in the 1960s come instantly to mind. In that latter time, there was no figure more central to the conflicts of his day than Richard M. Nixon.And no staff member was closer to Nixon in the campaign of 1968, or for the first four years of his presidency, than his personal aide Dwight Chapin, whose memoir, The President’s Man, is published this week.Coincidentally, this February of 2022 is the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s trip to China that changed the…Continue Reading

German Catholic Bishop Says… Benedict XVI Did Not Want To Cover Up Clerical Abuse

February 18, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on German Catholic Bishop Says… Benedict XVI Did Not Want To Cover Up Clerical Abuse

By ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI ROME (CNA) — Benedict XVI never sought to cover up cases of sex abuse by clergy. That is the conviction of the German Bishop Stefan Oster.In a reflection published on his website on January 30, the bishop of Passau, southeastern Germany, defended the Pope Emeritus from accusations that he had deliberately concealed his attendance at a meeting in 1980, where it was agreed that a priest accused of abuse could be transferred to the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, then led by the future German Pope.Oster also raised the question of whether recent attacks on Benedict XVI indicated that the Pope Emeritus still presents a threat to a specific vision of the Church being advanced in Germany.The…Continue Reading

Is It Too Much To Ask Congressmen To Stop Day Trading?

February 17, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Is It Too Much To Ask Congressmen To Stop Day Trading?

By NEIL PATEL It’s hard to find a national issue with bipartisan 75 percent support (and only 5 percent opposition). Those are the numbers of Americans who want to restrict congressional members from trading stock. It’s not surprising that Congress still hasn’t acted; a lot of members want to keep making money stock trading while in office. A competent congressional leadership would push this issue, but it’s not clear we have that today.There is a growing sentiment in America that those in power are playing by a different set of rules. Politicians flouting their own COVID-19 restrictions have exacerbated this long-running trend.The Pew Research Center has been measuring trust in government for 70 years. During that period, trust peaked at…Continue Reading

Saving America From Its Looming Decline

February 16, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Saving America From Its Looming Decline

By NEIL PATEL When the history of this American era is written, the top headline will not be about election controversies or critical race theory or even COVID-19. This will be known most of all as the era when America sold out its future generations. This past week, America’s national debt surpassed $30 trillion for the first time, a full $7 trillion increase from just two years ago.How did this happen, and who’s to blame? President Bill Clinton was no deficit hawk, but with a Republican Congress keeping him largely in line and with the dot-com boom providing record government revenues, Clinton gets a pass. His eight years added to the deficit, but not by much by today’s standards. As…Continue Reading

No Free Trade With An Unfree China

February 15, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on No Free Trade With An Unfree China

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY California, Florida, and Michigan may be geographically distant from one another and have somewhat different cultures, but when they engage in trade with one another, it is free.The business owners and workers in these states all work under the same federal laws. The Constitution gives the federal Congress, not state governments, the power to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States.”If a worker or entrepreneur does not like the laws of the state they now inhabit, they are free to move to another part of the United States — or they can vote their state politicians out of office.The United States is both a free country and a free-trade zone.The Constitution, as originally…Continue Reading

History Is Complex . . . Vying For California’s No-Bell Peace Prize

February 14, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on History Is Complex . . . Vying For California’s No-Bell Peace Prize

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This commentary first appeared February 4 at WND.com and is reprinted here with permission.) + + As someone originally from the East Coast, the history of the American West had always fascinated me. When I got to high school and had to select a language to study, I chose Spanish because for me, it was an entree to that history.It didn’t hurt that my father had gone to college in New Mexico and filled my imagination with his remembrances of the land, the people, and the history. It simply whetted my appetite to learn more and eventually to go there myself — which I did.My high school Spanish book was El Camino Real and it…Continue Reading

Equality And The March For Life

February 13, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Equality And The March For Life

By DONALD DeMARCO The theme for the recent January March for Life was “equality.” This word is one of the most important in our language, redolent as it is with moral implication. Unfortunately, it is egregiously misunderstood. Using “equality” as a theme is of great strategic importance for two reasons. The first is to challenge the use of the word “equality” as it is commonly employed in the secular world. In this regard equality of humanity is denied to the human unborn. The second is to recognize that the unborn child is equal in humanity with human beings who have been born. Pro-lifers were marching in behalf of a just understanding of equality.There are four arguments commonly put forth to…Continue Reading